The six review essays in this collection emerge from a joint launch of five books and one dissertation/ book-in-progress and a panel at the recent annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. In these meetings, each author provided a reading of another’s text, then revisited their own work in light of the resonances and dissonances that arose.
Addressing lab-based …
Contributed by Emily Ng
For those who did not make it to the sold out conference on Cultural and Biological Contexts of Psychiatric Disorder, co-hosted by the Foundation for Psychocultural Research and UCLA, it was a three-day barrage of intellectual stimulation, punctuated by endless streams of conference coffee. Speakers spanned the disciplines of anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, neurosciences, and law.…